Contributed by: Noah St. John

As we all know, an “affirmation” is a statement of something you’d like to be true. For example, a classic “affirmation” is: “I am rich.”

OK, let’s try it. Say, “I am rich.”

What just happened? Did you hear a voice in your head that said: “Yeah, right!”

We’ve only been told to use “affirmations”, but they really don’t work for most of us. Why? Because you’re trying to convince yourself of something you don’t really believe.

Traditional success teachers told us, if you don’t believe your “affirmations”, just repeat them a thousand…er, million…uh, kajillion times until you eventually, um, believe them.

Have you ever used positive “affirmations” (for example, “I am rich, I am happy, I am enough”)… and then had…

Absolutely nothing happen?

Me too. And about a billion other people.

One morning in April 1997, I was taking a shower and thinking about how the human mind is always in the process of asking and seeking the answers to questions. For example, if I asked you, “Why is the sky blue?” – your mind would start SEARCHING for the answer.

So I asked myself a very logical question. “If the human mind is always asking and searching for the answers to questions, why are we going around making statements that we don’t believe? Why don’t we cut out the middleman?”

Then I realized that if we say an “affirmation” like, “I am rich” – to which our brain replies, “Yeah, right!” – What would the question be?

The question might look something like this: WHY AM I SO RICH?

Try it. Right now, ask yourself, “Why am I so rich?”

Do you know what your brain is doing right now? SEARCHING for the answer!

Since Biblical times, and in recent movies like “The Secret”, we’ve been reminded that there is such a thing as The Law of Attraction, which is simply The Law of Sowing and Reaping: “As you sow, so shall you reap”.

Most people are sowing lousy thought-seeds like: “Why am I such a loser? Why can’t I do anything right? Why can’t I lose weight? Why don’t I have enough money?”

When you sow disempowering thought-seeds, you always reap the fruits – which means your life shows up as what you’ve been unwittingly asking!

And that’s how, on that fateful morning in April 1997, I discovered and named the process of AFFORMATIONS. Afformations are my discovery of empowering questions (NOT “affirmations”) that immediately change your subconscious thought patterns from negative to positive.

The staggering realization I made in The Shower on that auspicious morning was that you create your reality in two ways: by the statements you say to yourself and others, and by the questions you ask yourself and others.

Traditional success teachers have focused a great deal of energy telling you that you should change your statements, in the form of “affirmations”. But until The Shower, no one had fully realized, or shown how to harness, the awesome power of what happens when you change your questions.

 

The 4 Steps to Create Afformations That Change Your Life

 

Step 1: Ask yourself what you want.                                  

You can use goals you’ve previously written, or start from scratch. You decide.

Please note that traditional success teachers stopped right here! They told us to “set your goals”, and then say “affirmations” that attempt to convince your brain that you will have what you want… sometime, somehow, somewhere.

For example, Brandon from Utah wanted to make more money doing what he loved. He was an insurance salesman who’d spent $30,000 on every “how-to succeed” program out there with no results. So he wrote: “I want to be all I can be in life.”

Now, the breakthrough step…

 

Step 2: Form a QUESTION that assumes that What You Want is already true.

In Step 2 of The Afformations Method, you form a question that assumes that what you want is already so. This is the key to creating Afformations that change your life.

Your Life is a reflection of the unconscious assumptions you make about life and your relationship to it. That’s why Step 2 of The Afformations Method is to change your communication with the world inside yourself. Afformations are the fastest, most effective way I’ve ever seen to immediately change your communication with the world inside of you AND the world outside of you.

So Brandon began afforming: “Why am I allowed to be, do and have all that I want in life?”

 

Step 3: Give yourself to the question.

The point of Afformations is not to find “the answer”, but to ask better questions. When you ask better questions, your mind automatically begins to focus on what you have vs. what you don’t have. When you do this, the results will amaze you.

Once Brandon began to afform what he wanted in the previous step, his mind automatically began to Search for the answer. He started doing things a little differently, and talking with people with new confidence.

Which brings us to the fourth step of The Afformations Method – the one you MUST do to get the results you want…

 

Step 4: Take new ACTIONS based on your new assumptions about life.

Right now, you’re making thousands of unconscious assumptions about life and your relationship to it. These assumptions form the basis of how you go through life – from lack or from enough, from Love or from Fear.

For example, even though he’d spent thousands of dollars on every “how-to succeed” program out there, Brandon unconsciously assumed they wouldn’t work for him. So they didn’t.

After reading my book, he realized that this very assumption was keeping him from what he wanted.

Once Brandon followed the four steps of Afformations, his sales TRIPLED in 30 days. In less than nine months, his income had increased 560% and he was named Agent of the Year.

The point of Afformations is not to find “the answer”, but to change your questions. When you follow The Afformations Method, you will FORM empowering questions that immediately change your subconscious assumptions.

Can you see how this process must, by definition, change your life? Using Afformations, you can take conscious control of your subconscious thoughts – change the questions, change your results, and change your life!

About the Author

Noah St. John, Ph.D. is the inventor of Afformations and author of six books including The Secret Code of Success: 7 Hidden Steps to More Wealth and Happiness (Collins).

Get the first three chapters of The Secret Code Book (free) at   http://SecretCodeBook.com  

For a FREE 60-Second Afformation Stress Buster, go to http://iAfform.com